EXT: ANTARCTIC TUNDRA. Frozen barren landscape stretches for miles, while harsh snow whips and dances through the air. In the midst, we focus on a small Antarctic RESEARCH BASE.

INT: RESEARCH BASE. Amid shelves full of boxes of research equipment, huddle two researchers, FAT and THIN, nursing steaming cups of cocoa and staring out into the frosty snowscape beyond. FAT is quiet and irritable, while THIN is compelled to fill silences.

THIN : Why do we never do anything other than sit around sipping cocoa all the time?

FAT : It's probably got something to do with the fact that it's freezing outside.

THIN : But why cocoa, I don't even like cocoa. Do you think that Starbucks next door delivers?